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Live view of Independence Avenue and the Pirates Arms Restaurant and Bar in the Seychelles Islands. Seychelles Beachcam

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Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles (Creole: "Repiblik Sesel"), is an archipelago nation of 155 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar. Other nearby island countries and territories include Zanzibar to the west, Mauritius and Réunion to the south, Comoros and Mayotte to the southwest, and the Suvadives of the Maldives to the northeast. Seychelles has the smallest population of any sovereign state of Africa. History: While Austronesian seafarers or Arab traders may have been the first to visit the uninhabited Seychelles, the first recorded sighting of them took place in 1502, by the Portuguese Admiral Vasco da Gama, who passed through the Amirantes and named them after himself (islands of the Admiral). The first recorded landing and first written account was by the crew of the English East Indiaman "Ascension" in 1609. As a transit point for trading between Africa and Asia, they were occasionally used by pirates ... Read more about Misere on Wikipedia

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